One Day, during a peaceful driver, Gary Lane and his family are stuck in a enormous traffic jam. Lane, a former worker of UN, quickly finds out that it is not an ordinary roadblock. There are more and more policemen everywhere and the city begins to plunge into chaos. Something makes people to attack each other. The fatal virus, spreading by biting, transforms people into something hard to define, something wild. Neighbour turns against neighbour, helpful stranger becomes dangerous enemy. The origin of a virus is unknown and the number of infected is increasing rapidly, becoming pandemic.
When the infected take over armed forces and destroy the governments Lane is forced to return to his previous, dangerous way of life to save his family. He desperately starts to look for the source of epidemics and ways to stop its spreading.

Paramount Pictures and Skydance Production with cooperation with Hemisphere Media Capital and GH Films present a production of Plan B Entertainment/ 2DUX2,, a movie by Marc Forster entitled World War Z.